UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon makes a statement after a meeting with Premier George Papandreou in Athens yesterday. The diplomat said the growing number of environmental refugees leaving developing countries made it even more important that a climate change agreement is struck at an international conference in Copenhagen next month.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon makes a statement after a meeting with Premier George Papandreou in Athens yesterday. The diplomat said the growing number of environmental refugees leaving developing countries made it even more important that a climate change agreement is struck at an international conference in Copenhagen next month.